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diff --git a/net/p5-SNMP_Session/pkg-descr b/net/p5-SNMP_Session/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6bf0dc052143 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/p5-SNMP_Session/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +This archive contains Perl 5 modules SNMP_Session.pm and BER.pm, +which, when used together, provide rudimentary access to remote SNMP +(v1) agents. + +This module differs from existing SNMP packages in that it is +completely stand-alone, i.e. you don't need to have another SNMP +package such as CMU SNMP. It is also written entirely in Perl, so you +don't have to compile any C modules. It uses the Perl 5 Socket.pm +module and should therefore be very portable, even to non-Unix systems. + +The SNMP operations currently supported are "get", "get-next", and +"set", as well as trap generation and reception. + +For an excellent example of the type of application this is useful +for, see Tobias Oetiker's ``mrtg'' (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) +tool. |